On Sunday, I went to a Roller Disco!!!! I know! AMAZING! When I was a kid, I loved roller-blading so much and because I didn't own any rollerblades, my mum would take me to the Roller-blading Centre, where I would spend an entire day skating around on the rink and thinking that nothing could get better than that. The last time I went rollerblading was on my 12th birthday, so I was so excited to find out that this university was hosting this evening. I could once again feel that exhilaration of zooming through space and not caring about a thing in the world! However, Sunday wasn't what I expected it to be like.
Firstly: I roller-bladed when I was younger. I never roller-skated which is completely different; it is so much harder. So what I thought would be a night of reliving childhood, turned out to be a night of mixed feelings of fear, horror, but also fun, rollerskating for the first time.
It took me a while to figure out how to balance and actually move, but after the first ten minutes, I got the hang of it. When I was little, I was actually good at roller-blading, but roller-skating, I just became okay at. I wasn't that fast and sometimes I would wobble and wasn't completely confident with my ability, but I was able to get by without too many dramas. Well, until...
Secondly: some people shouldn't be allowed to roller-skate. And those people are the ones who think they are better than what they actually are. There was one girl who was cutting in front of people and she was moving her arms around like crazy in an attempt to dance to the music. I'm going to sound like a horrible person saying this, but she was a safety hazard because she wasn't actually very good at roller-skating and had no cares about the people around her. Exhibit A: ME!!!!!
The girl cut in front of me and because of her disregard of others, she startled me and I went crashing into a wall, which also had a window built into it. Unfortunately the corner of the window that stuck out, was the same level as the bridge of my nose, right between my eyes. My forehead went "WHAM!" into the wall and my nose went "WHACK!" into the corner of wall and window... I ended up having a bump on my forehead (which has thankfully gone down) and a swollen and bruised nose (which is still swollen and bruised). Also, I think a bit of bone on my nose is sticking out a bit differently than how it used to.
And the girl just kept on skating, oblivious to what havoc she had just caused... what a [insert R rated language here].
But despite those few minor hiccups, the evening was actually pretty fun and just like when I was little, I didn't want to leave the floor and for a while after the DJ stopped playing music, I was still skating a few laps.
Firstly: I roller-bladed when I was younger. I never roller-skated which is completely different; it is so much harder. So what I thought would be a night of reliving childhood, turned out to be a night of mixed feelings of fear, horror, but also fun, rollerskating for the first time.
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It took me a while to figure out how to balance and actually move, but after the first ten minutes, I got the hang of it. When I was little, I was actually good at roller-blading, but roller-skating, I just became okay at. I wasn't that fast and sometimes I would wobble and wasn't completely confident with my ability, but I was able to get by without too many dramas. Well, until...
Secondly: some people shouldn't be allowed to roller-skate. And those people are the ones who think they are better than what they actually are. There was one girl who was cutting in front of people and she was moving her arms around like crazy in an attempt to dance to the music. I'm going to sound like a horrible person saying this, but she was a safety hazard because she wasn't actually very good at roller-skating and had no cares about the people around her. Exhibit A: ME!!!!!
The girl cut in front of me and because of her disregard of others, she startled me and I went crashing into a wall, which also had a window built into it. Unfortunately the corner of the window that stuck out, was the same level as the bridge of my nose, right between my eyes. My forehead went "WHAM!" into the wall and my nose went "WHACK!" into the corner of wall and window... I ended up having a bump on my forehead (which has thankfully gone down) and a swollen and bruised nose (which is still swollen and bruised). Also, I think a bit of bone on my nose is sticking out a bit differently than how it used to.
And the girl just kept on skating, oblivious to what havoc she had just caused... what a [insert R rated language here].
But despite those few minor hiccups, the evening was actually pretty fun and just like when I was little, I didn't want to leave the floor and for a while after the DJ stopped playing music, I was still skating a few laps.
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